{"id":122374,"date":"2021-05-08T07:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T14:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/have-scientists-found-the-key-to-beating-prostate-cancer"},"modified":"2021-05-08T07:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T14:22:19","slug":"have-scientists-found-the-key-to-beating-prostate-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/have-scientists-found-the-key-to-beating-prostate-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Have scientists found the key to beating prostate cancer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/have-scientists-found-the-key-to-beating-prostate-cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researcher Professor Johann de Bono said: \u2018There\u2019s a lot of evidence that prostate cancer causes what we call immune tolerance \u2014 that the cancer suppresses the body from attacking it with its immune cells.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists have discovered that a key protein may be the secret to treating prostate cancer patients with \u2018miracle\u2019 immunotherapy drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Clinical trials have now begun \u2013 with the goal of unleashing cancer-killing white blood cells to attack the tumour.<\/p>\n<p>Immunotherapies have had stunning results against some types of the disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researcher Professor Johann de Bono said: \u2018There\u2019s a lot of evidence that prostate cancer causes what we call immune tolerance \u2014 that the cancer suppresses the body from attacking it with its immune cells. Scientists have discovered that a key protein may be the secret to treating prostate cancer patients with \u2018miracle\u2019 immunotherapy drugs. Clinical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}